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validity

  • /vəˈlɪd.ɪ.ti/
  • /vəˈlɪd.ə.ti/
  • [vəˈlɪɾ.ɪ~ə.ti] US
  • [vəˈlɪɾ.ɪ~ə.ɾi] US
  • [vəˈlɪd.ə.ɾi] Canada
  • [vəˈlɪd.ə.ɾi] Australia
  • [vəˈlɪɾ.ə.ti] Australia
  • /ʋæːˈlɪ.ɖɪ.ʈiː/ India, North
  • /ˈʋæː.lɪˌɖɪ.ʈɪ/ India, South

Rhymes with -ɪti

Where it comes from

From valid + -ity, borrowed from Middle French validité, from Late Latin validitas.

noun validities

  1. countable, uncountable The state of being valid, authentic or genuine. As we saw, there are strong suggestions in Marx's works that truth should be understood as meaning 'validity' in relation to human needs.

    Similar: validness

  2. countable, uncountable State of having legal force.
  3. countable, uncountable A quality of a measurement indicating the degree to which the measure reflects the underlying construct, that is, whether it measures what it purports to measure (see reliability).
  4. countable, uncountable The genuinity, as distinguished from the efficacity or the regularity, of a sacrament as a result of some formal dispositions being fulfilled.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: validness, cogency, rigor, rigour, validation, validate, legitimacy, advisability, justifiability, merits, justification, admissibility, value, legality, lawfulness, permissibility

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noun the state of being valid, authentic or genuine

Españolvalidez
日本語妥当性 datousei
हिन्दीवैधता vaidhtā, मान्यता mānyatā
Portuguêsvalidez, validade
Françaisvalidité
DeutschGültigkeit
Italianovalidità
Ελληνικάεγκυρότητα egkyrótita
Românăvaliditate
Русскийде́йствительность déjstvitelʹnostʹ, го́дность gódnostʹ, срок де́йствия srok déjstvija
العربيةصَلَاحِيَّة ṣalāḥiyya

noun having legal force

Portuguêsvalidade
Românăvalabilitate, validitate
العربيةقَانُونِيَّة qānūniyya, مَشْرُوعِيَّة mašrūʕiyya

noun quality of a measurement

العربيةصَلَاحِيَّة ṣalāḥiyya

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Chicago

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@misc{validity_2026,
  title = {validity},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/validity},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}